Hyderabad: A Royal Bengal tiger at Nehru Zoological Park (NZP) here has died of heart failure, officials said on Sunday. The 11-year-old male tiger named Kadamba died on Saturday night.
As per the post-mortem report, the cause of death of the animal was shock due to congestive heart failure.
NZP Director N. Kshitija said Kadamba did not show any apparent signs of illness, but was off feed frequently, for the last few days, for which it was under observation of the Zoo veterinarians.
Kadamba was brought to the Zoo from Pilukula Biological Park, Mangaluru in 2014 via animal exchange programme.
Post mortem was conducted by the veterinary expert team headed by Professor Laxman, Head, Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Science.
All the required blood and tissue samples were collected and sent to College of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Biological Research Institute, Shantinagar, and Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), a unit under the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), for further detailed examination.